Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List for October 2, 2000 from sales the week ending September 24 Online at www.bookweb.org Thursday, September 28 Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, October 2 For the Book Sense store nearest you, call 1-888-BOOKSENSE   HARDCOVER FICTION last week / # of weeks 1 The Bear and The Dragon Tom Clancy, 039914563X, Putnam, $28.95 Newly elected President Jack Ryan stars in this latest big-scale drama from the author of The Hunt for Red October and Rainbow Six. 2/4 2 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood, 0385475721, Doubleday, $26.00 In her new, dazzling, multi-layered novel, Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new creative heights, and ties it all up with a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. 1/3 3 Shattered Dick Francis, 0399146601, Putnam, $25.95 Francis's latest thriller, engaging and suspenseful as always. 3/2 4 The Rescue - 1st Week On List Nicholas Sparks, 0446525502, Warner, $22.95 One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all ... loving someone forever. -/1 5 Open House Elizabeth Berg, 0375506039, Random House, $23.95 A recently divorced woman opens her house to boarders in order to meet her mortgage payments, and in the process emerges from grief to reclaim herself. Oprah's latest selection. 5/6 6 Morgan's Run Colleen McCullough, 0684853299, S&S, $28.00 In a novel of sweeping narrative power, McCullough returns to Australia -- this time with the story of its birth. 7/4 7 Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher, 0312244266, St. Martin's, $27.95 A tale of tragedy and renewal by the bestelling author of The Shell Seekers and September. 4/8 8 When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro, 0375410546, Knopf, $25.00 By the author of The Remains of The Day, a brilliantly realized story about the power of one's past to determine the present . 6/2 9 Pagan Babies Elmore Leonard, 0385333927, Dell, $24.95 The bestselling author's latest, a scathingly dark romantic comedy boldy set against the backdrop of Rwandan genocide. 8/3 10 The Sky Is Falling Sidney Sheldon, 0060198346, William Morrow, $26.00 Several mysterious deaths take a Washington journalist around the world in search of answers. 9/2 11 Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay - First Week On List Michael Chabon, 0679450041, Random House, $26.95 With this brilliant novel, the author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys looks back at the 20th century through the history of comic books, fulfilling his promise as a great writer in an exhilarating triumph of language and invention. -/1 12 Girl With A Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier, 052594527X, Dutton, $21.95 14/38 13 The Night Listener - 1st Week On List Armistead Maupin, 006017143X, HarperCollins, $26.00 -/1 14 Friend Of the Earth T. C. Boyle, 0670891770, Viking, $24.95 11/2 15 The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch - 1st Week On List Terry Brooks, 0345396545, Ballantine, $26.95 -/1 The Book Sense Bestseller List is copyrighted and cannot be reprinted without permission from the American Booksellers Association. For information, please contact Michael Hoynes, Marketing Officer, at: (914) 591-2665 ext. 1204, 828 Broadway, Tarrytown NY. Reprint Guidelines.